While electronic paper technology is perfect for creating resilient monochrome and grayscale images, it can prove more complicated when trying to show things in color.
Not exact matches
As has already been mentioned, the display of the DR 950 is based on SiPix Microcup
electronic paper technology which boasts of 16 shades of gray and is as close to a real print on
paper as one can expect
while also being less demanding on battery power.
While the main draw is showing off new
technology like 3D televisions, they apparently had a small display of flexible
electronic paper at this year's convention.
Even though
electronic paper has been around for a
while, it is, in terms of its real - environment use in digital signage, still a relatively new
technology, making the learning curve a difficult one.
And
while in the past several prototypes of such a dynamic museum label had been tested on LCD
technology, it was in 2007 already that museum practitioners believed the future of
technology empowering museums must lie elsewhere, especially in the
electronic paper option.